Well yeah, there are all kinds of salts, some inedible, which is why I was trying to refer to it as 'table' salt... I just get the impression Brysing's up to something here. ?_?
Re: I'm just wondering... By: Brysing Moderator / Adept
Post # 12 Jan 30, 2016
No, I am not "up to something". There are, of course,other salts that can be made in a laboratory; but not sodium chloride. The only source is from the sea. Rock salt is mined from deposits of salt laid down by prehistoric oceans. You can "extract" salt by evaporating sea water. But you can no more make salt than you can make Gold or Silver, or many other metals. Alchemists tried to do those things many years ago. They failed!
Though in theory, if we can somehow combine atoms of two elements, Na and Cl, couldn't we have the product of salt? Though of course not natural... but if those two elements are its components, and if we had a method to actually combine atoms such as that, couldn't it then make salt?
When I say make, I mean combining two elements and then that together is then a substance where the properties are different to the two respected elements.
Re: I'm just wondering... By: Brysing Moderator / Adept
Post # 18 Jan 31, 2016
Osiris, we have now gone off the original thread which was about Alchemy. But if you really think that nothing is impossible, then you are being silly! Try growing wings!
Brysing, you can make sodium chloride in a laboratory. If you google 'Chemistry sodium chlorine' on the first page of results is a YouTube video of a man combining the elements sodium and chlorine to make table salt in a laboratory.
I'm not disagreeing that rock salt is mined, I'm not disagreeing that you can extract salt by evaporating sea water. But it is patently untrue to claim that you can't combine the elements sodium and chlorine to make sodium chloride.
